Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006 M05 9 - 544 pages Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely prevailed until the twentieth century when the Greek army marched in, Muslims were forced out, and the Nazis deported and killed the Jews. As the acclaimed historian Mark Mazower follows the city’s inhabitants through plague, invasion, famine, and the disastrous twentieth century, he resurrects a fascinating and vanished world. |
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Page 66
... faith . Yet even - perhaps especially - when confessional boundaries were not crossed , the daily life of the city fos- tered a considerable sharing of beliefs and practices . " For contrary to what our secular notions of a religious ...
... faith . Yet even - perhaps especially - when confessional boundaries were not crossed , the daily life of the city fos- tered a considerable sharing of beliefs and practices . " For contrary to what our secular notions of a religious ...
Page 84
... faith . To judge from the mid - eighteenth century , which is when the first data became available , the overall numbers of converts were not great — perhaps ten cases a year in the city and its hinterland.4 Even so , Orthodox clerics ...
... faith . To judge from the mid - eighteenth century , which is when the first data became available , the overall numbers of converts were not great — perhaps ten cases a year in the city and its hinterland.4 Even so , Orthodox clerics ...
Page 87
... faith was axiomatic , and any public assertion of the superiority of Christianity over Islam was punished with severity . But even here Ottoman and Orthodox interests fitted strangely together , since the church , itself founded through ...
... faith was axiomatic , and any public assertion of the superiority of Christianity over Islam was punished with severity . But even here Ottoman and Orthodox interests fitted strangely together , since the church , itself founded through ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams w | 32 |
Copyright | |
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